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REJOICE AND BE GLAD . . . THE PAPAL POSSE…FR. GERALD MURRAY and ROBERT ROYAL

April 13, 2018 breaking Comments Off on REJOICE AND BE GLAD . . . THE PAPAL POSSE…FR. GERALD MURRAY and ROBERT ROYAL

THE PAPAL POSSE…FR. GERALD MURRAY, canon lawyer and priest of the Archdiocese of New York and ROBERT ROYAL, editor-in-chief of The Catholic Thing.org, discuss REJOICE AND BE GLAD, the new Apostolic Exhortation by Pope Francis released by the Vatican this week. DR. KERRY CRONIN, professor of philosophy at Boston College talks about the lost art of dating and courtship in modern culture, and the new film THE DATING PROJEC

James Martin S.J. vs James Martin S.J.

April 13, 2018 breaking Comments Off on James Martin S.J. vs James Martin S.J.

Donald Trump might refer to James Martin S.J. as “Slippery Jim.” He is certainly slippery. His latest act of slipperiness is a column he published this week at America wherein he claims to support the teaching of the Church on homosexuality. Keep in mind the Church teaches that the homosexual inclination is “objectively disordered” and that genital acts between pe

Mass attendance in US down in recent years, Gallup poll finds

April 12, 2018 breaking Comments Off on Mass attendance in US down in recent years, Gallup poll finds

Washington D.C., Apr 10, 2018 / 10:05 am (CNA/EWTN News).- Catholic pews in the US are emptying, according to data from a recent Gallup survey, which showed that Mass attendance is down to a 39 percent weekly average over the past 10 years. From 2005-2008, Catholics reported attending Mass on a 45 percent average within seven days, but it has since dropped 6 percent from 2014-2017. The average Mass attendance in 1955 was at 7

Condom distribution at Catholic hospital stops after Cincinnati archdiocese speaks up

April 11, 2018 breaking Comments Off on Condom distribution at Catholic hospital stops after Cincinnati archdiocese speaks up

Cincinnati, Ohio, Apr 10, 2018 / 02:19 pm (CNA).- A county-run needle exchange program hosted in a Catholic hospital’s parking lot has stopped distributing condoms, following action from Archbishop Dennis Schnurr and the Archdiocese of Cincinnati. “This matter was addressed and favorably resolved last week, as soon as it came to the attention of the archdiocese,” Mike Schafer, director of the archdiocese’s communication and mission promotion departm

Pope blames Catholic divisions on the devil

April 10, 2018 breaking Comments Off on Pope blames Catholic divisions on the devil

VATICAN CITY (AP) — Pope Francis called Tuesday for unity in the Catholic Church and blamed its divisions on the devil. It was the second time in as many days that Francis has warned about the destructive work of the devil after making headlines recently by seeming to deny the existence of hell. Francis made the comments during a Mass he celebrated along with 550 “missionaries of mercy,” the army of priests he formed during his

Francis contradicts previous Popes: immigration issue just as important as abortion

April 9, 2018 breaking Comments Off on Francis contradicts previous Popes: immigration issue just as important as abortion

VATICAN, April 9, 2018 (LifeSiteNews) — In his lengthy exhortation released this morning, Pope Francis chastised those who would see abortion as a more important issue than migration. “Some Catholics consider (immigration) a secondary issue compared to the ‘grave’ bioethical questions,” he said. “That a politician looking for votes might say such a thing is understandable, but not a Christian.” The Pope decries the “harmful ideological error” of those who di

Amoris’ Critics at Rome Summit Beg Pope, Bishops, ‘Confirm Us in the Faith!

April 7, 2018 breaking Comments Off on Amoris’ Critics at Rome Summit Beg Pope, Bishops, ‘Confirm Us in the Faith!

ROME – At a Rome summit on Saturday of the most ardent opposition figures to Amoris Laetitia, Pope Francis’s controversial 2016 document on the family, lay participants issued a final declaration broadly rejecting the teaching that divorced and civilly remarried Catholics may receive Communion and imploring “the pope and the bishops to confirm us in the faith.” Their final conclusions, issued Saturday towards the end of the summit, which attracted several hundred people to a Rome hotel near the Vatican, were the following: “We witness and profess in

Cardinal Burke: Pope Francis is ‘increasing the confusion’ (FULL INTERVIEW)

April 6, 2018 breaking Comments Off on Cardinal Burke: Pope Francis is ‘increasing the confusion’ (FULL INTERVIEW)

ROME, April 5, 2018 (LifeSiteNews) — Pope Francis is “increasing the confusion” in the Church, and the College of Cardinals constitutes a de facto check against papal error, Cardinal Raymond Burke has said in a new interview. Speaking to the Italian Catholic news agency La Nuova Bussola Quotidiana on Thursday, Cardinal Burke said last week’s alleged ‘interview’ on hell with Pope Francis, reported by his 94-year-old atheist friend, Eugenio Scalfari, “went beyond what is tolerable.” Burke also called the Vatican’s response to the “scandal

‘Catastrophic for the Catholic Church’: World media reacts to Pope Francis’ denial of hell

April 5, 2018 breaking Comments Off on ‘Catastrophic for the Catholic Church’: World media reacts to Pope Francis’ denial of hell

ROME, April 4, 2018 (LifeSiteNews) – Mainstream media was in a furor last week over the news of Pope Francis purportedly saying that “hell does not exist” and that unrepentant souls in mortal sin simply “disappear.” On the eve of the Holy Thursday, an Italian journalist published an article claiming that the pope had told him that hell does not exist. Eugenio Scalfari, 93, atheist journalist and founder of the left-wing newspaper La Repubblica, claimed on March 28 that Pope Francis had told him two

Trump includes preborn in ‘Child Abuse Prevention Month’ declaration

April 5, 2018 breaking Comments Off on Trump includes preborn in ‘Child Abuse Prevention Month’ declaration

WASHINGTON, D.C., April 3, 2018 (LifeSiteNews) – Declaring every child a “precious and unique gift,” President Donald Trump has officially identified April 2018 as National Child Abuse Prevention Month. Notably, the proclamation expressly includes the preborn, stating that all children are “blessings from our Creator” that have been “endowed from conception with value, purpose, and human dignity.” “When supported by encouraging fam